Who Ends Up Paying Cost
Of Cut-Rate Heart Care?

Everybody seemed like a winner when Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York announced a business alliance with North Shore University Hospital.

HIP would begin steering thousands of members to the Manhasset, N.Y., hospital for a variety of treatments. In return, North Shore promised HIP sizable discounts. Clinching the September 1995 accord, HIP designated North Shore the hospital of choice for any of its 375,000 members living in Queens or Long Island who needed open-heart surgery. The heart contract assured North...